Research Handbook on Disability Policy

Edited by Sally Robinson and Karen R. Fisher

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781800373648
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Narrative 1: Mia's piece - Candice, "Defying Gravity" and I , pp 15-16

Mia Boonen

Ch 2 Knowledge production and human rights enhancement: the role and potentialities of emancipatory disability research , pp 17-32

Mario Biggeri, Federico Ciani, Giampiero Griffo and Sunil Deepak

Ch 3 A journey together - co-creation and experiential knowledge of people with intellectual disabilities in social policy , pp 33-48

María Gómez-Carrillo de Castro

Ch 4 Accessibility policies in Brazil: negotiating collective access through the principles of Disability Justice for a Brazilian Center for Disability Studies , pp 49-64

Marivete Gesser and Anahí Guedes de Mello

Ch 5 Narrative 2: Evil: disabled villains in media , pp 65-66

Em Dewhurst

Ch 6 Developing a participatory indicators-based framework for monitoring disability rights , pp 67-84

Paula Campos Pinto and Maria Engrácia Cardim

Ch 7 Disabled person-led monitoring of the UNCRPD in Aotearoa New Zealand: maximising the potential of civil society in the implementation of Article 33.3 , pp 85-99

Robbie Francis Watene, Brigit Mirfin-Veitch and Umi Asaka

Ch 8 Narrative 3: If my childhood can have CRPD's company , pp 100-101

Honglu Zhu

Ch 9 The right of people with disabilities to participate in cultural life: is Cinderella going to the ball? , pp 102-117

Delia Ferri and Ann Leahy

Ch 10 When the state does not care: disability rights in a context of multi-layered crises, instability and disablism , pp 118-134

Grace Khawam and Supriya Akerkar

Ch 11 Decentralization, empowerment and grassroots engagement: advocacy organizations navigating the implementation of codified disability rights in Malawi , pp 135-150

Sarah I. Huque

Ch 12 From enabling access to enabling rights: Singapore's practical approach to disability policy , pp 151-165

Daryl W.J. Yang, Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Gerard Goggin and Meng Ee Wong

Ch 13 An accessible public transit system as a right for people with disabilities in Taiwan , pp 166-182

Kuo-yu (Lisa) Wang and Pey-chun Pan

Ch 14 Narrative 4: The effect of disability policy on lives , pp 183-185

Chien-Ju Chou

Ch 15 The EU framework of people with disabilities' rights - an intertemporal equilibrium between regulatory and policy paradigms , pp 186-201

Gabriel Amitsis and Fotini Marini

Ch 16 The influence of disability models in Indonesian past and present: disability rights law-making and policy-making , pp 202-216

Abi Marutama, Antoni Tsaputra and Lengga Pradipta

Ch 17 The Accessible Canada Act: a political expression of disability rights as human rights , pp 217-232

Michael J. Prince

Ch 18 Narrative 5: Locked-in, locked-down: lived experience of a non-speaker , pp 233-233

Tim Chan

Ch 19 From international standard to national practice: the role of national disability institutions in making the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities a reality in South and Central America , pp 234-250

Renata Anahí Bregaglio Lazarte, Paula Lucía Camino Morgado and Renato Antonio Constantino Caycho

Ch 20 Narrative 6: Affection and emancipation: the friendship of four disabled women , pp 251-255

Karla Garcia Luiz, Laureane Marília de Lima Costa, Mariana Lúcia Agnese Costa e Rosa and Thaís Becker Henriques Silveira

Ch 21 Decolonizing disability rights policies through indigenous theorization: the case of Zimbabwe , pp 256-268

Martin Musengi

Ch 22 Narrative 7: Disabled Howl - AS1428.1 2021 and all that jazz , pp 272-273

Peter Raisbeck

Ch 23 From care and welfare to independent living? Interpreting and assessing the human right to live independently and be included in the community , pp 274-288

Yvette Maker

Ch 24 Sexuality and relationships: informing rights-based policy and practice through research with and by people with intellectual disability in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand , pp 289-302

Patsie Frawley and Brigit Mirfin-Veitch

Ch 25 Narrative 8: A quiet genocide: the power of segregation , pp 303-304

Cindy Liu

Ch 26 Engaged advocacy: a framework for inclusion of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds in disability policy , pp 305-321

Maree Higgins, Mahmoud Murad, Kim Robinson, Angela Dew, Katherine Boydell, Fiona McKay, Joanne Watson and Ruth Wells

Ch 27 Narrative 9: My work advocating for the Syrian community , pp 322-329

Mahmoud Murad, Miream Salameh, Maree Higgins and Miream Salameh

Ch 28 The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme and disability identity: how welfare policy impacts narratives of disability , pp 330-345

Tessa-May Zirnsak

Ch 29 Tracing the welfare-rights connection in American disability policymaking , pp 346-360

David Pettinicchio

Ch 30 Questioning the dominant welfare discourse on personalization and autonomy embodied in personal budget policy , pp 361-373

Toon Benoot and Rudi Roose

Ch 31 Negotiating rights in education: an examination of U.S. education disability policy , pp 374-386

Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides

Ch 32 Narrative 10: My education story , pp 387-388

Alexander Elliott

Ch 33 Preventing catastrophe: the welfare state and disaster risk for people with disabilities , pp 389-401

Zachary A. Morris

Ch 34 Strategic human rights-based policy reforms for making Australian universities equally accessible to students, staff, and faculty who are Indigenous people with disability , pp 402-417

Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Paul Harpur and Michael Ashley Stein

Ch 35 Narrative 11: The "lucky" one , pp 418-420

Ayah Wehbe

Ch 36 Exploring equality and non-discrimination of disabled students in policy and practice in public universities in Uganda , pp 421-436

Paul Emong and Anica Zeyen

Ch 37 Participation in personalization of minority cultural groups: lived experience and diversity in the UK , pp 437-451

Martin Partridge, Mahuya Kanjilal and Elaine Arnull

Ch 38 Materializing change: exploring human rights-based approaches to improve built environment accessibility at the neighbourhood scale , pp 452-468

Mary Ann Jackson, Erin Wilson and Flavia Marcello

Ch 39 Narrative 12: The draining expectations placed upon marginalised groups , pp 469-469

Mac Zamani

Ch 40 Alternative community living practices in Taiwan: rethinking de-institutionalization and the human rights model , pp 470-484

Heng-hao Chang and Yi-Chun Chou

Ch 41 Mainstreaming disability in Indonesian development: rethinking disability citizenship to move beyond a welfare focus , pp 485-500

Antoni Tsaputra and Eban Pollard

Ch 42 Housing deficit for people with disabilities in a radically neoliberal country: Chile's case , pp 501-516

Francisca Valdebenito-Acosta, Julio Hasbún-Mancilla and Joao Acharan-Riffo

Ch 43 Inclusion of students with visual impairment in Indian higher education: a critical inquiry from a human rights perspective , pp 517-532

Aneesh Peter and Catherine Elisa John

Ch 44 Narrative 13: Voice, choice and a better outcome , pp 536-538

Raelene West

Ch 45 Making disability known: medicalisation of disability and the development of the International Classification of Functioning , pp 539-550

Jennifer Smith-Merry

Ch 46 Disabilities, evidence-making and quality of life: the three core human rights principles framework , pp 551-564

Luciano Bottini Filho

Ch 47 Establishing a human rights-based approach in healthcare: a UK example moving beyond policy and into private spaces , pp 565-580

Eleanor Brown and Jo Ferrie

Ch 48 Narrative 14: Technology in the lives of people with disabilities , pp 581-582

Brooke Ellison

Ch 49 Disability and human rights: the right to benefit from scientific progress , pp 583-599

Anne M. Bryden, Jennifer French and Brian Gran

Ch 50 Chasing a runaway train: disability policy grapples with accelerated prenatal genetic technologies , pp 600-614

Kara B. Ayers and Monica C. Schneider

Ch 51 Care robots as enabling assistive technology: implications for quality of life and disability policy , pp 615-631

Naonori Kodate, Hasheem Mannan, Sarah Donnelly, Yurie Maeda and Diarmuid O’Shea

Ch 52 Narrative 15: Disability rights and robotics: being there without being there , pp 632-635

Sophie Savage and Tillie Curran

Ch 53 It's about quality of life rather than length of life': using and refusing policy discourse in the lives of children labelled with life-limiting and/or life-threatening conditions , pp 636-652

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dan Goodley, Kirsty Liddiard and Sally Whitney

Ch 54 Inclusive sexuality education: achieving sexual justice, sexual pleasure and sexual agency for women with disability , pp 653-666

Denise Beckwith and Nicole Laurance

Ch 55 Narrative 16: In her lifetime , pp 667-668

Lee Tsourvakas

Ch 56 Pain management for palliative care patients with disabilities: revisiting morphine prescription policies in developing contexts , pp 669-681

Julieth Musengi and Martin Musengi

Ch 57 Narrative 17: Supported or stuck? Disability employment policy for young people , pp 684-685

Sionainn Jans

Ch 58 Economics of inclusion , pp 686-690

Daniel Mont

Ch 59 Heightism, hierarchies and human rights: how a normalcy of disability infringes on the rights of people with dwarfism , pp 691-705

Erin Pritchard

Ch 60 Post-school transition process in a pandemic: how can young people with disability be better supported? , pp 706-720

Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Amy Marks and Jess Mitchell

Ch 61 The right to work "on an equal basis with others": examining disability employment policies in Australia through the lens of a health and economic crisis , pp 721-738

Sue Olney and Alexandra Devine

Ch 62 Narrative 18: Sanist wonderland , pp 739-740

Damian Mellifont

Ch 63 Does the CRPD matter? A comparison of sheltered workshop policies in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea , pp 741-755

Yi-Chun Chou, Jun Nakagawa and Eun-Ju Yoo

Ch 64 Disability as an enabler of career success and inclusion1 , pp 756-771

Daniel Samosh, Mukta Kulkarni, Alecia Santuzzi and Brent Lyons

Ch 65 Narrative 19: I want a job , pp 772-772

Sadiel Albakri

Ch 66 Social entrepreneurship between earning a living and emancipation: impact of microfinance on people with disabilities in Kenya , pp 773-788

Yvonne Wechuli, Sellah Lusweti, Halimu Shauri and Elisabeth Wacker

Ch 67 Advancing income security policy using universal design: the case of the Ontario Disability Support Programme in Ontario, Canada , pp 789-804

Tracy Smith-Carrier

Ch 68 Narrative 20: Living with a disability: what difference would a guaranteed livable income make? , pp 805-806

Joe Foster

Ch 69 A human rights-based approach to assistive technology provision in global policy , pp 807-822

Catherine Holloway, Giulia Barbareschi, Oriol Valles Codina, Nora Colton, Arne Henning Eide, Zuleima Dafne Morgado-Ramirez, Jamie Danemayer and Victoria Austin

Ch 70 Conclusion on disability policy , pp 823-829

Sally Robinson and Karen R. Fisher

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